We find ourselves in a bewildering world. We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What is the nature of the universe? What is our place in it and where did it and we come from? Why is it the way it is?

Maxwell is the physicist's physicist.

It matters if you don't just give up.

I’m not religious in the normal sense. I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

A million million million million (1 with twenty-four zeros after it) miles, the size of the observable universe.

Do you ever wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges?